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Kim Kardashian flaunting her figure in a bikini is not exactly news, but it's the first time she's showed off her body since her pregnancy.
Wearing a white two-piece, a sarong and little makeup, the reality star and her barely there bump are on display in the newest issue of DuJour magazine. She's also in the pool for a few shots with her hair glistening with water.
Photographer Bruce Weber shot Kardashian for the spread just five days after Kanye West announced his girlfriend's pregnancy in January.
On her pregnancy, Kardashian told the magazine that she's having an easy time with no morning sickness, cravings or fatigue.
However, she does have one guilty pleasure: "Lately I've been watching shows like I'm Pregnant and Addicted to [Crystal] Meth. It definitely makes me feel better if I'm wanting one sip of Diet Coke or, you know, too much sugar. I'm like, this woman is on meth."
With a very public pending divorce from Kris Humphries, the TV starlet also shared her frustrations about the split. "Going through a divorce for anybody is devastating and heartbreaking, and then to have to do it and feel like you have to explain what is happening is such an awkward thing," she said.
Now, Kardashian said that she's learning to keep things more private thanks to her baby daddy.
"My boyfriend has taught me a lot about privacy. I'm ready to be a little less open about some things, like my relationships. I'm realizing everyone doesn't need to know everything. I'm shifting my priorities."

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Penn State Continuing Education, World Campus, Student Affairs and Undergraduate Admissions are hosting a free information session for employees eligible for University tuition reimbursement. Spouses of employees also may attend. The session will take place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 2, in 129 HUB–Robeson Center at University Park campus.
"This is a casual, informative open house where attendees can obtain answers to their education-related questions," said Meg Abplanalp, admissions counselor in admission services for Continuing Education and World Campus. "University tuition reimbursement can help employees and their spouses complete a degree begun previously or get started on developing the credentials that can make them more marketable."
Attending an employee information session was just what Rosalie Owens needed to get started on completing her associate degree. She had begun an associate degree in business administration years earlier at South Hills School of Business and Technology, but had to quit. "It was difficult to raise my kids, work and go to school," said Owens, an administrative assistant in the Office of Student Legal Services since 2011. "The opportunity I have now has allowed me to work toward accomplishing this goal. I enrolled at Penn State because of an information session. It was very beneficial. I got all of the information I needed to return to school." Owens is now enrolled in an associate degree in letters, arts and sciences through Penn State Continuing Education.
Penn State employees can stop by any time during the session to talk with representatives from the sponsoring University units about education programs, including professional certificates and associate, bachelor's and master's degree programs, and financial aid and scholarships.
Courses are offered during the evenings, on weekends and during the day, as well as online. In addition, participants can find out about registering for courses, transferring credits and earning credits for their prior college-level learning.
Employees who cannot attend the session may call the phone number listed below to make an appointment with an admissions counselor.
For information or to register to attend the April 2 employee information session, call Continuing Education and World Campus Admission Services at 814-863-5216 or visit http://ceup.psu.edu/psuemployees.


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News & Notes: Game 78
Sunday, June 26, 2011 (1:05 p.m.) – Coca-Cola Field
Radio: WWKB AM 1520, bisons.com
Buffalo Bisons (32-45, T4th(-12.0), North)
RHP Chris Schwinden (4-3, 3.05)
Norfolk Tides (29-46, 4th(-12.0), South)
LHP Chris George (3-3, 4.06)
TODAY'S GAME: This afternoon, the Bisons take on the Norfolk Tides in the third game of a four game series at Coca-Cola Field (1:05 p.m.). The Bisons have won the first two games of the series by scores of 4-2 and 6-5. Following tomorrow's series finale, the Herd will welcome in Lehigh Valley as they continue their season-long 10-game homestand.
VS. THE TIDES: Buffalo is now 4-2 against the Tides this season, having won the past three contests. The Bisons split a four-game series against the Tides last week in Norfolk. Buffalo is 14-7 in their last 21 games against the Tides and have owned the series since 1998. The Bisons have a .632 winning percentage (67-39) in the last 13-plus seasons.
SCHWING AND MISS: RHP CHRIS SCHWINDEN leads the Bisons in the pitching triple crown with four wins, 60 strikeouts and a 3.05ERA. His ERA also ranks as the 8th best in the International League. Schwinden was victorious his last time out, allowing just one run in six innings on Tuesday in Durham. Schwinden's last win at home came May 6 against Louisville (6.0IP, 0R, 5K).
MR. WALK-OFF: OF JESUS FELICIANO had the game-winning single in the 11th inning last night and now has four walk-off winners in his Bisons career. He had the Bisons last previous winner with a two-run single on May 5 against Louisville. Feliciano's first walk-off hit also came against the Tides, a two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth of a 5-3 win on May 11, 2009.
SWEET 16?: INF NICK EVANS can become the third Bisons player to reach 16 games with a hit streak. His 15-game stretch has been loud with 11 multi-hit games and a .475 (28-59) batting average. In the streak, Evans has nine doubles, two homers, 13RBI and 11 runs scored. The stretch has also raised Evans season batting average 85 points from .215 to an even .300.
BISONS BITS: INF NICK EVANS has hit .300 (15-50) off lefties, .300 (39-130) off righties and .300 (15-50) with runners in scoring position…The Bisons are now 3-0 in extra-inning games at home this season…INF VALENTINO PASCUCCI'S 47 walks are five more times than any batter in the IL.
METS UPDATE: The Mets (38-39) put up an eight-run sixth inning in a 14-5 win at Texas last night. Former Bisons OF LUCAS DUDA had four hits, including three doubles, and four RBI in the win. OF CARLOS BELTRAN also had three hits and three RBI. The Mets and Rangers play the rubber-match of their series today at 1:10 p.m.


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viscosity, resistance of a fluid to flow. This resistance acts against the motion of any solid object through the fluid and also against motion of the fluid itself past stationary obstacles. Viscosity also acts internally on the fluid between slower and faster moving adjacent layers.
All fluids, i.e., all liquids and gases, exhibit viscosity to some degree. Viscosity may be thought of as fluid friction , just as the friction between two solids resists the motion of one over the other but also makes possible the acceleration of one relative to the other (e.g., the friction between the wheels of an automobile and a highway), so viscosity resists the motion of a solid through a fluid but also makes it possible for a propeller or other device to accelerate the solid through the fluid.
Sections in this article:
- Introduction
- The Coefficient of Viscosity
- The Velocity Gradient
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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5th death blamed on unpredictable snowstorm heading for New England after burying parts of Va.
WASHINGTON (AP) � A fifth death is being blamed on the winter storm that's buried parts of the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic region before heading into the Northeast.
State police in eastern Kentucky say a woman was killed Wednesday night in Whitesburg when she lost control of her vehicle on an icy road and struck another vehicle.
The storm has led to at least four other deaths. A semi-trailer slid off a snow-covered interstate in western Wisconsin, killing two people. A central Indiana woman died when a semi-trailer plowed into her car after she lost control merging onto the highway, and a man from Columbia City in northeast Indiana was killed when his snowmobile left the road, headed across a field and crashed into a wire fence.


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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Engineers have resolved a minor glitch with a new NASA robotic lunar probe, which blasted off Friday night for the first leg of a 30-day trip to the moon.
Shortly after the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, or LADEE, spacecraft separated from its Minotaur 5 launch vehicle, its positioning system shut down due to what appeared to be a high electrical current.
Engineers quickly determined there was no problem with the reaction wheels, which are needed to steer and stabilize the spacecraft. Rather, the glitch involved a fault protection system designed to safeguard the wheels.
"The limits that caused the powering off of the wheels soon after activation were disabled, and reaction wheel fault protection has been selectively re-enabled," NASA wrote in a statement posted on its website.
Engineers will assess how to manage the fault protection system, added project manager Butler Hine, with NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.
LADEE blasted off aboard the Minotaur 5 rocket, which was making its debut flight, at 11:27 p.m. EDT/0327 GMT on Saturday from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia.
The rocket, made up of three decommissioned intercontinental ballistic missile motors and two commercial boosters, deposited LADEE into a highly elliptical orbit stretching as far as 273,588 km from Earth. During its third pass around the planet, LADEE will be in position to fire its braking rocket and slip into lunar orbit.
A 30-day checkout of the probe's science instruments will follow. Engineers also will test a prototype two-way optical laser communications system that NASA is developing for use on future space probes.
LADEE's main mission is to analyze the thin shell of gases enveloping the lunar surface, a tenuous atmosphere known as an exosphere. It also will look for signs that the lunar dust rising off the surface.
Scientists believe the dust may be the cause of a strange glow on the lunar horizon spotted by the Apollo astronauts and NASA's 1960s-era Ranger robotic probes.
LADEE was the first deep-space probe to fly from the Wallops Island spaceport. On Sept. 17, Orbital Sciences Corp. (NYSE: ORB) is scheduled to launch its Antares rocket and Cygnus cargo capsule on a trial run to the International Space Station for NASA.
The station, a project of 15 countries, flies about 400 km above Earth.


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It is a strange thing to think how a year's time can pass slowly and quickly.
It has been a mighty 12 months. In many years I am certain I will look back on this year and think head shaking thoughts. My life as an adult has always been a little hectic—think move, pregnancy, birth, deploy and repeat about six times. That brings us to now. And magically the word move is slowly creeping its way into our conversations. Part of me is very ready for my husband to retire from his military service. That is the part of me that craves stability. I want my kids to know this land we live on, to make their marks on the walls of our home to see how much they've grown. To watch them grow up along side of the same bunch of goofy friends. To plant perennials and see them come up year after year.
Then there is another part of me that craves the adventure. It would be hard for me to watch him hang up his hat. He wears his uniform with pride and truly I believe his service has made and continues to make the world a better place. Do I want him to give that up just so I can grow peonies?
We won't move now, or even this summer. It is the decisions that have to be made now that will affect our family later. I know that whatever happens will happen, God has always taken care of us even when I had trouble understanding the how and why.
I kind of feel like I need to let some of this emotion go so I can be a little more carefree. I wanted to get back to New England so bad for so many years and now here we are and it is wonderful. It is like I can't get on with anything because of the what-ifs. Almost a desperation but not quite.
So here and now I will look ahead with optimism.
I will be less focused on what I have little control over.
We will plant a garden.
I will play with my children.
We will raise a pig. (Really we will, it arrives soon.)
I will sew shortalls for Sawyer that really emphasize his pudgy thighs.
Sawyer turned one yesterday. He didn't know it but loved the excitement—screeching whenever anybody got in his face and said "Happy Birthday". There is a huge difference from your oldest child turning one to your sixth child turning one. Less emphasis on presents and more emphasis on how grateful I am to get to love this child. He has taught me so much!
He has my husband's red cheeks and reminds me of a little old Irish man.
There is an Irish saying that says something like…
"You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was."
That has more meaning for me than you will ever realize, and for my little Sawyer boy who is growing before my eyes.
PS If you are southern when you say peonies it sounds like you are saying panties. Just an fyi from me who lives in the north.


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You may get a phone call from private equity, but be aware that only 5% of companies contacted actually get an offer. Shocking as that might be, owner-operators go to private equity thinking they are prepared and then are bitter that their time was wasted.
As a financial advisor to owner-operators, our team is constantly discussing how to show our value-add to potential clients. We help owners access fantastic private equity partners, get their valuation higher than they could on their own and then help them through the five years of partnership.
Owner operators are getting phone calls from private equity funds and not preparing themselves properly. They think they can just show up with out knowing how a Private Equity partner works, what they want and their hot buttons.
Here's a good article in the Globe and Mail about selling a company that I thought you may find interesting and thanks to Winnie Chou. She picked up this article and has some excellent points. Winnie says,
The interesting part is from the initial prospecting, the Riverside fund sent an introductory letter to 30% of the total list of companies and from that pool, the fund sent an LOI to less than 5% of the companies.
So even though a company may feel like they are being targeted by a big fund, the chances of an actual deal occurring are slim and often, the business owner will not receive an offer without knowing what they did wrong in the meeting.


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(Photo taken by Rebecca of The Clothes Horse, with whom I met up… I didn't break out into a jig though…)
>> What can I say – I'm a fashion journo hack mode that can't come up with a title better than this one even though as a song title it's probably been shoved into many, MANY article standfirsts. Still, I stand by the choice given that it's 100% apt for these 80%20% boots which I've been wearing non-stop. It's a shoe label that I've come to discover first hand through a weird and wonderful job that again, I can't quite talk about yet (I promise I'm not being mysterious on purpose… ), and their Adair hiking boots from their A/W 10/11 collection have since been doing a lot of walking in addition to jumping, running, jogging and also prancing. I am also indeed prone to do a little bit of a jig in the street if I've had a very good meal or I've bagged a bargain in the sales, and these boots are also good for err… jig purposes.
As a general rule of thumb in the designer heel comfort rankings (and this is personal for me and applicable to LENGTHS of walking as opposed to a few dance steps at a party…), LD Tuttle shoes are good for walking day and night in, Miu Miu/Marni chunky heels are good for walking all night long and as a zany addition, Atalanta Weller wedges give enough bounce to walk around for an afternoon in. However, on the lower end of the scale, basically only Topshop, Irregular Choice and a few vintage heels have served me well in the WALKING stakes (again, I'm talking about LONG BOUTS of walking…) but now I can add 80%20% to the list. In addition to the Adair hiking boots, I'm also quite smitten with the toggle shoes and the calf-hair shoes they have in a number of fall-friendly, leave-crunching styles…
… but of course, these creeper a-likes with the hidden wedge in have a neon sign hovering above them saying "Susie could potentially live in these…"
(Soon to be available on Karmaloop who look to be stocking most of the A/W 10-11 styles…)


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Q. What is the NJCUL Services Corporation?
A. NJCUL Services Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary and service corporation of the New Jersey Credit Union League. NJCUL Services Corporation works to provide credit unions with best-in-class products and services through preferred partner relationships. We offer a variety of opportunities for business partners to engage with us and the credit unions in our marketplace. From building brand awareness and developing marketing strategies to lead generation and sales support, NJCUL Services Corporation has opportunities for quality business solution providers that will provide a positive return-on-investment.


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Monday, July 25, 2005
Country radio, among other sources of music such as cable
networks these days play songs over and over. We know
that. Is it because the song is really that good or is it
just overplayed so much it becomes so familiar that we
think it is a good song?
I'm thinking the 2nd option.
Of those songs we here hour after hour, do you really miss
hearing it after it is done with its time in the
spotlight? Very rarely do.. think about it. Don't you
think it was truly a good song, that you would miss it at
least some?
Sure, rarely, a song that is truly 1-country and 2-good
gets plenty of radio time, don't get me wrong in thinking
that every song that is overplayed is bad. It's not
totally so, but certainly close.
If the stations would take just a little time to cut down
on the overplaying and make room for other songs, just
maybe you can find something decent on country radio. I
won't hold my breath, that's for sure. Thank God for my
own CD collection and XM Radio.


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About This Exhibition
History and Function
Recent Conservation
Chronology and Map
The King at War: Velázquez's Portrait of Philip IV
October 26, 2010, through January 23, 2011
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599–1660), King Philip IV of Spain,1644, oil on canvas, 51 1/8 x 39 1/8 inches, The Frick Collection, New York
Painted at the height of Velázquez's career, the Frick's King Philip IV of Spain (1644) is one of the artist's consummate achievements. Contemporary chronicles as well as bills and invoices in Spanish archives indicate that it was painted in a makeshift studio only a few miles from the frontlines of a battle, and that it was completed in just three sittings. The work, which shows its subject dressed in military costume, an atypical depiction, was sent to Madrid where it was used during a victory celebration. Displayed in a church under a rich canopy embroidered in gold, the painting embodied the contemporary idea of monarchy as the divinely sanctioned form of government.
In conjunction with a focus on Spanish art this fall with the exhibition The Spanish Manner: Drawings from Ribera to Goya, the Frick offers a dossier presentation on the portrait, which returned recently from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, having been cleaned for the first time in more than sixty years. The gleaming silver brocade covering the king's crimson cassock is executed in a shockingly free and spontaneous manner, which is almost unparalleled in the painter's production and can now be better appreciated. The treatment by Michael Gallagher, Sherman Fairchild Conservator in Charge of Paintings Conservation, revealed the dazzling original surface that had been veiled by a yellowing varnish. Additionally, the first technical studies of the painting were undertaken, involving microscopy, X-radiography, and infrared reflectography.
Coordinated by Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow Pablo Pérez d'Ors, the Frick's presentation places the restored masterpiece in the context of original research and findings resulting from its recent cleaning and examination. It also sheds new light on the function of the painting and the implications of presenting the king as a soldier, while addressing connections between the portrait and other paintings by the artist and his workshop. A thrilling mixture of Spanish Baroque art, politics, war, and religion comes alive at the Frick through examination of this masterpiece.
The exhibition is made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation


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Audiologist / Hearing Aid Dispenser
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Bisons walk away with another
The Herd has returned from their All-Star break with a new found flare for the dramatics.
The Bisons defeated the Gwinnett Braves 4-3 at Coca-Cola Field tonight thanks to a walk-off sacrifice fly from Jorge Padilla for the Bisons second walk-off win in as many days. The Herd earned their victory last night thanks to a Jesus Feliciano single in the eleventh inning and the sacrifice fly from Padilla gave the Herd their seventh walk-off win this season.
The Braves jumped out to an early 1-0 lead thanks to a home run from first baseman Freddie Freeman in the first inning. Freeman's eleventh home run of the season came off of a 1-1 pitch from Bisons starter Oliver Perez and was driven deep to right field to give the Braves the early advantage. After giving up the home run to Freeman, Perez settled down and got through the next four innings with relative ease. Perez ran into a bit of trouble in the sixth however, giving up a two-run home run to Braves left fielder Mitch Jones to tie the game at three.
Following Jones' two home run game last night, the Braves slugger launched his team leading 18th home run of the year out of Coca-Cola Field to signal the end of Perez's start.
In his second rehab outing with the Herd, Perez gave Buffalo a quality start. The lefty tossed 6.2 innings while giving up seven hits and only three earned runs. Perez also struck out seven batters in his performance tonight.
Following their disappointing appearances in the past two games, the Bisons bullpen pitched well in tonight's contest and did not allow any more runs after Perez's exit. Jose De La Torre, Ryota Igarashi and Manny Acosta combined to throw 2.1 innings while only permitting one hit and one walk to keep the Bisons in the game.
Entering the bottom of the ninth with the game tied at three the Herd tried to avoid going into extra innings for the third straight game.
Third baseman Mike Cervenak started the inning off right when he got aboard with a single to lead off the frame. Right fielder Fernando Martinez then followed Cervenak and showed that he was going to bunt to move the runner over. Once Martinez laid down the bunt back to Braves pitcher Scott Proctor his throw to the bag sailed past Freeman and allowed Cervenak to move to third and Martinez to reach second.
After second baseman Russ Adams was intentionally walked to load the bases catcher J.R House struck out and Padilla was sent to pitch hit in the pitchers spot. Padilla came through in the clutch and sent a fly ball deep enough to right field to score Cervenak when Jordan Schafer's throw could not beat the runner home giving the Herd the 4-3 win.
The win for the Herd now improves their record to 48-45 while the loss drops the Braves to 43-51.
BISONS NOTES: The Herd will return to Coca-Cola Field tomorrow afternoon to finish up their four-game series with the Braves. Dillon Gee (8-5, 4,77 ERA) will take on Gwinnett left hander Jose Oretgano (2-6, 6.51 ERA) before the Herd will head to Rochester for a home and home series with the Red Wings.


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Back in February, Motorola released a list of devices that it would be upgrading to Ice Cream Sandwich along with the expected timeframe of the update. As time passed by, Motorola failed to meet its expected timeframe, and until now has only managed update a handful of its handsets to Ice Cream Sandwich – the DROID RAZR/RAZR MAXX, DROID 4 and recently, the Atrix 2.
The ICS update for the DROID Bionic, which was at one point of time Motorola's flagship Android handset, has slipped into Q4, which has rightfully angered all Bionic owners.
Today, Motorola updated its Ice Cream Sandwich roll-out chart to make some sad changes. The company has decided not to update the original Atrix 4G, the Sprint Photon 4G and the Electrify to Ice Cream Sandwich. All these handsets are more than capable of running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich smoothly, with their dual-core processor and 1GB of RAM.
The Atrix 4G and the Photon 4G are very similar to each other, and were at one point the company's flagship handsets for their respective carriers. Not upgrading the Android OS version of its previous generation flagship handsets even once clearly shows how incompetent Motorola is. The Atrix 4G launched with Android 2.2 on-board, even though it was released well after Android 2.3 Gingerbread hit AOSP. The company then took its own sweet time to roll-out the Gingerbread update for the handset, and has since then only released some minor software updates for the device.
Google may have purchased Motorola for its patents, but the company will definitely be mending ways how Motorola conducts its business.
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ResourcesBy Paul A. Eisenstein
Case Study: Merging IT at DaimlerChrysler
Corporate Headquarters | Stuttgart, Germany and Auburn Hills, Mich.
Year founded | 1998, through the merger of Chrysler Corp. and Daimler-Benz AG
CIO | Susan Unger
IT employees | 4,000 worldwide
Manufacturing plants | 180 in 37 countries
Brands | Mercedes-Benz, Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, Freightliner, Sterling and others
Alliances | DC owns 34.1% of Mitsubishi Motors Corp. of Japan and 10% of Hyundai Motor Co. of South Korea
*Revenue | $136.1 billion in 2001, down from $144.5 billion in 2000
**Net income | A loss of $589 million in 2001, down from $7 billion in 2000
* Based on an exchange rate of 1 euro = $.89, as of Jan. 1
** Including negative one-time effects due to turnaround activities at Chrysler Group, Freightliner and Mitsubishi Motors Corp.
When Daimler-Benz Ag bought Chrysler Corp. In 1998, the German luxury carmaker was hoping the American mass marketer could show it how to cut spending, squeeze costs and boost profits. Back then, at least on paper, the $36 billion pairing, the biggest-ever among carmakers, seemed unbeatable. Chrysler had $7.5 billion in cash on hand, there was little overlap in the two companies' respective product linesluxury cars versus mass-market compacts and minivansand Chrysler was lean and mean, earning more per vehicle than any other major carmaker in the U.S. Best of all, in an industry seeking ever-larger economies of scale, the merger offered an opportunity for cost-cutting, by an estimated $1 billion over the first three years on the cost of parts, alone. At a press conference announcing what was then being proclaimed as a "marriage of equals," Chrysler Chairman Robert Eaton offered a rationale: "This is all about speed and flexibility. It's about converting ideas into profits and doing it faster than our competitors." Crowed Daimler Chairman Jürgen Schrempp: "The two companies are a perfect fit of two leaders in their respective markets."
So much for a perfect fit. Since Eaton and Schrempp, as new cochairmen, shared the balcony of the New York Stock Exchange in November 1998 to ring in the first day of trading for the new company's stock, DaimlerChrysler shares have lost more than the equivalent value of the entire Chrysler Corp. prior to the merger. Market and industry watchers now describe the deal as a sly German takeover that has not only come close to hollowing out the old Chrysler but has endangered the new company's profitability to boot: Last year, Chrysler lost nearly $2 billionand by its own calculations probably won't make a dollar of profit until 2003. DaimlerChrysler, meanwhile, lost $589 million, and despite offering Chrysler car buyers discounts of as high as $2,000 per vehicle, Chrysler's American market share continues to shrink, from 16.2 percent at the time of the merger to around 13.5 percent today. Management has also taken a beating: Chrysler's Eaton is gone, along with dozens of top U.S. managers responsible for the marketing, product and design savvy Daimler had originally sought from Chryslerthe kind of smarts Schrempp said were needed to help the new DaimlerChrysler develop a vehicle for every kind of driver, from Buenos Aires to Beijing.
Company executives admit now that they greatly underestimated the cultural problems that would form the core of the company's present-day woes. For the past three years, mistrust between Auburn Hills and Stuttgart has made cooperation difficult on even the simplest of matters. Until recently, deciding which parts and, in some cases, which technologies the image-conscious Mercedes will share with Chrysler has been all but impossible. "We initially underestimated what it would take" to understand one another, concedes Vince Morrotti, DC's chief technology officer and previously the top IT executive at Mercedes-Benz of North America Inc. Morrotti and other top DC executives insist the company is getting on track after plenty of detours, but there remain numerous skeptics. Says veteran auto analyst Maryann Keller: "I can't imagine two more different cultures. Some 70 percent of mergers don't work, and this one isn't working, either."
Still, while much has gone wrong, the task of tying the two former companies' technologies together in a push to cut costs and boost efficiencies has marched forward. DaimlerChrysler CIO Susan Unger, a 29-year finance and technology veteran of the old Chrysler, is one of the few Chrysler execs to survive the merger. Her efforts have saved the new company close to $200 million so far, and many of her team-building techniques are being copied throughout the new corporation.
It has helped hugely, of course, that throughout, Unger has had strong support from the top. When Schrempp pulled Unger in during early merger talks and named her CIO, it was clear that whatever DC would become, the Germans saw ITand Unger, with her track record of using IT to cut costsas a cornerstone of the new company. "The position of the leaders," recalls Unger, was that "IT is absolutely an essential ingredient for making this merger successful. There was a lot of talk about how the Germans took over everything, but they recognized Chrysler's value on IT."
She had to move fast: Unger was given little more than two months before the merger was formalized in November 1998 to tie together 16 different European e-mail systems to Chrysler's one"just to enable everyone to share information and best practices," she saysand then to patch together a way for all design teams to start using one global network, and all with no increase in spending, other than what she could squeeze from cost-cutting.
But the cultural challenges have been just as daunting, if not more so (see "Thinking Out Loud"). In the critical, time-crunched weeks before the merger, Unger recalls, even the simplest differences between American English and the British English used by DC's German engineers could lead to frequent misunderstandings.
Unger and Chrysler had faced tough obstacles before. It took a federal bailout to save Chrysler in 1979 and a complete product overhaulaccompanied by technology-led efforts to cut costs, boost quality and accelerate productivityto recover from near-bankruptcy a decade later. Today, General Motors Corp. claims to be the biggest vendor of microprocessors in the world, thanks to the computing power of today's cars. Ford Motor Co. says its internal computing power is second only to the Pentagon's. But Chrysler has long had a leg up on both, thanks to its history of financial turmoil. "We didn't have the luxury of being anything but efficient," Unger says.
At Chrysler, for example, Unger was instrumental in pushing the early use of collaborative design software, IBM's CATIA CAD/CAM system, to overcome a severe labor shortage in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Using CATIA, engineers "build" a virtual vehicle, which is run through simulated crash testingand even down a digital assembly line. The goal: to be certain that what's on the drawing board will, indeed, meet cost and design specs. With CATIA, Chrysler cut development costs, and shortened lead times from what had been close to five years down to as little as 20 months on some programs. According to market analysts, CATIA can help cut up to $1 million a day in process costs.
While at Chrysler, Unger also proved her cost-cutting mettle on the quality front. Chrysler was scrapping up to 50 vehicles per month at its Ohio Jeep plant because workers would inadvertently drill the wrong number of holes in them as they moved down the assembly linethey weren't sure which components were needed. Unger convinced IT to start automating the warranty claims process, and also ushered in a barcode system that electronically identified each vehicle as it rolled down the line. The barcodes included information about which accessories were to be installed on which Jeeps, essentially telling the assembly operator how many holes to drill at any given time. The changes cut the number of vehicles being scrapped per month down to three, for savings in the millions. But Unger didn't stop there. The next step was to automate the drilling rig itself so it could only drill the correct pattern. Scrap rates at the plant from drill errors are now down to zero.
Meanwhile, Daimler-Benz, though slower to evolve a corporatewide IT strategy, was on a rapid automation kick at the time of the merger. It, too, had just started to adopt a version of CATIA. But Daimler executives needed the support and expertise of Chrysler's more unified and sophisticated technology to pull the new company together.
Sluggish Acceleration
Sluggish Acceleration
Unger's new DC IT management team initially faced a global Tower of Babel. The IT network each company had put in place reflected its native corporate origins. While Chrysler was relatively centralized, Daimler-Benz was notoriously decentralizedreflecting a company that functioned like a bunch of semiautonomous fiefdoms. Each Daimler business unit had operated its own IT system; financial and human resources applications, especially on the Daimler side, had evolved regionally.
The network backbones weren't much better off. In theory, each company had one, but again, Daimler's was a patchwork, even in its core European market. "This was a big problem," Unger recalls. "You can imagine how much network bandwidth you needed to send CATIA data from one location to another. With the two companies' old hodge-podge of networks, it would never have worked."
Differences in business processes posed other headachesnot so much in engineering and design, but in manufacturing, where different cars and trucks are still being built in different placesand in different ways. Arguments continue over how or whetherto use technology to "commonize" certain processes. Says Unger: "Parts come into a plant, they go out, we build the cars and the finished ones go out. Why does that process have to be so different from one plant to the next?"
Unger has had some influence. In the past, DC's warehouses had been unable to fulfill all of the 220,000 orders sent in each day by mechanics seeking replacement parts. That meant customers had to wait to get their cars repairedor go elsewhere. To improve the balance of supply and demand, Unger brought in software that linked DC's Mopar parts division with many of its suppliers and logistics providers, which allowed Mopar's purchasing and inventory managers to see what was wrong and speed the flow of parts. In 2000, DC says, the system saved it $7.2 million in reduced stock and $10 million through improved order fulfillment.
But Unger says her ROI push has been mostly painful, and getting tougher. "When you get down to the specifics of how a vehicle is made, that's where [cost-cutting] becomes more difficult," she says. In fact, it's still one of DC's biggest internal debates: Should everyone be operating exactly the same hardware and software systems at every level at every location within the DaimlerChrysler system? "We thought at first that there should be one of everything," says CTO Morrotti. But now, he says, it's clear that, amid some fierce local resistance, "one-size-fits-all wouldn't work in this organization." Case in point: The old Daimler and old Chrysler sides of the company still use separate databases to collect and analyze customer information for marketing strategy.
The Germans, though, have also given some ground. "One lesson we learned from our colleagues in Auburn Hills is that the IT backbone needs to be as homogenized as possible around the world," says Helmut Mahler, DC vice president of information technology management. Unger credits "face-to-face meetings" with senior-level executives like Mahler early on "to explain what infrastructure is." Unger also sought to leverage the relationships each former company had with different technology suppliers, using each side's clout to hammer out better prices and contracts.
Yet further progress will be tougher to negotiate. Though Unger estimates that scrapping each duplicate application saves another $2 million to $3 million, the fights over which ones stay and which ones go rage on. A recent battle over whether to drop Daimler's Oracle-based database in favor of Chrysler's IBM DB2, for example, continues. Ditto some CRM applications.
And the stakes just got higher. Chrysler's new German boss, Dieter Zetsche, has ordered another $8 billion in cuts at Chrysler over the next three yearsjust as additional cost-cutting targets are getting harder to find. To eke out more savings, analysts say, Daimler execs will have to start sharing engineering and design work with their Chrysler counterparts, which, up until now, they've guarded tightly. Is it possible? Nearly one-third of the components in the new Chrysler Crossfire sports car, for example, are being borrowed from Mercedes. "Without a shared IT system," says J Ferron, chief of automotive practice for PricewaterhouseCoopers consulting, "such collaboration would have been culturally difficult, if not altogether impossible, cost-wise."
But analyst Keller wonders how much more "commonizing" Unger can do. "How can you [share] dealer networks and purchasing and distribution systems that are very different across the company and very unique to individual markets, based on different ways people buy cars?" Keller asks. "Can many of these things ever be centralized? At some point you have to start finding ways to use technology to create profits, and that's a whole 'nother ball of wax."
Repair Work
Repair Work
For now, however, the wide culture gap between Stuttgart and Auburn Hills remains Unger's bête noire. Even before the merger was officially announced, Unger, aware that bickering would impede fast progress, began creating IT teams to size up the combined companies' IT strengths, weaknesses and priorities (see "CIO Roadmap"). But most significant, Unger says, was her decision to immediately confront most cultural issues head-on.
Under Unger's leadership, DC used a "Balanced Scorecard" to measure progress by the IT group toward a specific goal in this case, cross-cultural cooperation. Unger's group was ranked with color- coded "grades." In DC's case, green meant progress, yellow meant problems and red meant failure. "At first," Unger recalls, "we were always being rated red, never green. I was always in trouble. But I knew that if everyone was comfortable right away culturally, we couldn't be doing the right thing." Creating a new culture out of two old ones was not going to be comfortable for anyone, she says, "so we hit the hard issues first and I did what I could to bring out the pain right at the beginning."
Unger moved quickly, for example, to establish who would be in charge, who would report to whom, how decisions would be made and what sorts of behaviors would be discouragedand punishedcome performance review time. Unger also sought to manage expectations, as in her belief that "red" was not something to worry too much about in the merged company's first weeks.
Six months into the merger? Unger's group started scoring green. "I think what helped is that we focused not on territory, but on ROI as a unifying theme," she says. Unger also sought input from the business side at every turn, and set time limits on deliberations. "Most frustrating has been the difference in the way people work," Unger says. "The Germans, at first, wanted to take weeks to make decisions that the Americans wanted to make in hours."
The new rules of the road according to Unger: First, American managers need to brief German counterparts on proposals in advance of a vote; German managers must be prepared to make faster decisions. Second, no IT project gets a green light unless it leads to a payoff for the bottom lineand meets the needs of the people who want the technology. Third, senior management must support all IT projects and put their key people on those projects, or the project gets left in the dust. Says John Parkinson, chief technologist for Cap Gemini Ernst & Young LLC: "CIOs in merger situations are almost always the diplomats on the front line, because through IT you really are brokering a deal between the most significant parts of the enterprisenot spreadsheets and assets but communications systems. Success lies more with managing the roles and expectations than the technology."
Even so, deciding which technologies get centralized and which stay local remains tough, and Unger acknowledges the difficulty. "I try to stress that I am neutral with technology and suppliers. I couldn't care less. But a lot of these decisions tend to be emotional nonetheless," she says. "You mitigate emotions by trying to keep everyone focused on ROI, of course, but the technology biases you have to deal with sometimes are immense. They're holy wars."
The Road Ahead
The Road Ahead
What's next? More cost-cutting. A 13-hour parts auction in mid-January, using Covisint, the industry's online parts exchange, helped DC save up to 40 percent of the opening price on some items, and DC will continue to experiment with the auction model for some purchases.
DC also plans to turn to software programmers in India and other parts of the developing world to reduce costs even further on next-generation projects. Unger will also push ahead to consolidate IT into an even more streamlined and "commonized" operation. Morrotti, for one, foresees "huge opportunities" to cut costs by reducing the number of regional computing centers. It's unlikely DC will settle on a single, global data center. More likely, he says, DC will set up four regional facilities, one serving North America, another for Latin America, a third for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and the fourth serving the Asia/Pacific region, which would more closely tie DC to partners Mitsubishi Motors Corp. of Japan and Hyundai Motor Co. of South Korea.
Even farther down the road? Schrempp foresees new ways to wring cost-savings from DC's expanding global ties. In January, he reported that DC is working with Mitsubishi and Hyundai to develop a "world engine" for as many as 1 million vehicles that could, potentially, cut development costs by one-third and carve out bigger profits from the small cars most of these engines would power. In addition, Mahler says, DC may save $100 million in engineering costs by cloning a Mercedes transmission for Chrysler sedans coming out in 2004.
Information technology will be critical to both efforts: such collaboration, say analysts, would not be possible without some commonand virtualdesign and engineering systems and combined purchasing of some key parts. Still, analysts like Keller question how far DC can go in this direction before "customers start wondering why they're paying $100,000 for a Mercedes when they can spend $20,000 on a Mercedes-built Chrysler compact."
Mahler is optimistic, saying that Unger, his boss, has built a unified IT team which will enable continued progress. "Today, the process of integration [in the IT department] is complete, and whether you're in Stuttgart, São Paulo, Singapore or Auburn Hills, we act like a team," Mahler says. But Unger also knows that long-term success will take a lot more than getting disparate IT cultures to make nice. Sure, technology has already helped Unger to start taming culture and costs. The really hard partfiguring out a way to help IT plump up the profitshas only just begun.
Can she do it? Keller is dubious. "The auto industry is not magic." she says. "Success is not a by-product of efficient software. It's what the software produces, ultimately. It's what the distribution system ultimately delivers. Success and failure, in this business, is still determined one customer at a time in a showroom."
PAUL A. EISENSTEIN is publisher of TheCarConnection.com, an automotive news Web site. His work has appeared in some 60 media outlets, including The Economist and National Public Radio. Comments on this story can be sent to email@example.com.
: Merger Management">
Focus: Merger Management
What is it? A step-by-step process that helps companies and IT departments manage organizational and cultural change before and after a merger, acquisition or alliance is announced. The goal: tech-led integration of companies.
The upside: By demonstrating the ability to address management and cultural issuesas well as align IT infrastructures with business goalsCIOs can use the merger- integration process to deliver value and help drive future strategy.
The risks: Cost-cutting targets set by the CEO are often based on simplistic assumptions; many CIOs also face unrealistic deadlines for integrating complex technologyand all without a break in service or performance.
Business payoff: Gartner Inc. says CIOs who fail to do premerger planning add 20 percent to 50 percent more time to the period given for achieving business goals. They also hike the cost of a merger by at least 25 percent of the combined IT budgets.
CIO Roadmap
CIO Roadmap
- Size up management issues, systems, budget and application needs
Collect data, identify key personnel, and cite best practices
Design ideal architecture; assess costs, choose which systems to integrate
Create IT transition teams, prioritize key IT projects and set up joint IT-business task forces
Design new IT department; determine dominant IT organization and develop migration plan
Work on communications systems first and plan next steps, including long-term integration roadmap
Combine key systems, pilot new processes, monitor progress and seek new synergies
Source: Daimlerchrysler Corp.
Books and Papers
- From Promise to Performance: A Journey of Transformation at SmithKline Beecham
By Robert P. Bauman. Harvard Business School Publishing, 1996
- Managing Cultural Differences: Effective Strategy and Execution Across Cultures in Global Corporate Alliances
By Piero Morosini. Elsevier Science, 1998
- Taken for a Ride: How Daimler-Benz Drove Off with Chrysler
By Bill Vlasic and Bradley A. Stertz. William Morrow & Co., 2000
- "Information Technology Management in a Merger and Acquisition Strategy"
Web Sites
- www.ismbc.org
Information Systems Management Benchmarking Consortium, a nonprofit association of technology and merger management executives


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Multi-media art sale at Sherman winery
SHERMAN -- "Wine, Women and Art," a multi-media art exhibit and sale, will be at the White Silo Farm and Winery, Route 37, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Fri through Sun, Sept. 5 through 28. A reception will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. Sat, Sept. 6.
On exhibit and for sale will be a new selection of acrylic, oil, watercolor, multi-media, and woven paintings, as well as collage and pottery, created by four Connecticut artists. Ann Kromer of Ridgefield is an en plein air painter. Bethel painter Adele Moros is a multi-media artist whose work varies from miniatures to murals, portraits, still life, and landscapes. Paula Renee's multi-media art is in major corporate, public, and private collections worldwide. Judith (Lerner) Taylor, a former soloist with American Ballet Theater, continues to express the joy of movement through her unique ceramic creations: EarthDances.
Call 860-355-0271. Visit www.
Other exhibitions
DANBURY -- The Cultural Alliance of Western Connecticut will present "One Woman," works by Nancy Moore, at @287 Gallery, 287 Main St., from Fri, Sept. 5 to Fri, Oct. 10. The exhibit includes works on paper and a series in framed wool.
A reception will be from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 5. Free. Call 203-798-0760. Visit www.artswesternct.org.
LITCHFIELD -- The Marie Louise Trichet Art Gallery at Wisdom House Retreat and Conference Center, 229 E. Litchfield Road, will display "Inner Light," an exhibit of sculpture by David Colbert, through Sept. 13. Gallery hours are Mon through Sat from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Call 860-567-3163. Visit www.wisdomhouse.org.
NEW MILFORD -- The exhibit "Civil War -- 150," featuring works by illustrator Wendell Minor from his children's books on Abraham Lincoln, paintings of Lincoln by Wendy Allen, rarely seen Civil War era quilts from Sue Reich's private collection, and materials from the New Milford Historical Society, will be on view in the Silo Gallery, 44 Upland Road, through Sun, Nov. 2. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wed through Sat; and noon to 5 p.m., Sun. Call 860-355-0300. Visit www.hunthillfarm trust.org.
NEW MILFORD -- Gallery 25 and Creative Arts Studio will host "Livin' Is Easy," a summer exhibition featuring the artwork of nearly two dozen member artists, as well as works of selected guest artists, at the studio, 25 Church St., through Sept. 13. Admission is free. Call 860-355-6009. Visit http://newmilfordgallery25.blogspot.com.
RIDGEFIELD -- Art Walk Ridgefield, a free, three-week festival during which downtown businesses will exhibit original photography, multimedia, paintings, drawings, and sculpture of more than 60 fine artists, will run through Sun, Sept. 14. Special events will be held throughout the festival. Visit www.rgoa.org.
WASHINGTON -- The Washington Art Association will feature the exhibit, "Sculpture for Landscape,"at the association's gallery, 4 Bryan Plazanow through Sept. 27. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tue through Sat; noon to
4 p.m. Sun; and closed Mon. Free. Call 860-868-2878. Visit www.washingtonart.org
WASHINGTON --Oil paintings by Ann Harriet Carew are on display in the Stairwell Gallery at Gunn Memorial Library, 5 Wykeham Road, through Sept. 27. Inspired by the Old Masters and the impressionists, Carew appreciates the work of present-day artist David Leffel for his "Rembrandtesque" style. Her own still lifes and landscapes can be viewed during regular library hours. Call 860-868-7586. Email firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit www.gunnlibrary.org.


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It may be hard to believe that in this dreadful economy there are a significant number of job openings going unfilled because employers are having difficulty finding qualified applicants. This phenomenon had been a growing concern among employers and some policy makers even when the economy was booming in the last decade. The situation has been alleviated by overall growth in unemployment, but it has not disappeared.
Why should anyone who is not one of these employers care? Because when so many millions of Americans have been unemployed for so long (43 percent of the unemployed have been out of work for more than 27 weeks), it is tragic that any job openings are going begging for applicants.
And many of these unfilled job openings are in higher-growth industries. As we have been painfully reminded these past few years, decline in one economic sector (housing) can be disastrous for the entire economy. Conversely, growth in one area of the economy reverberates positively across other sectors.
An annual survey of employers by the Manpower Group, released in May, found that 49 percent of employers in the United States are having difficulty filling certain positions. Information technology, engineering and skilled trades positions are cited as among the most difficult to fill. Among the top reasons employers cited for being unable to fill openings was lack of applicants, technical skills and experience. Drilling down into the data in this and other surveys it is apparent that other factors are also in play. These contributing factors include unwillingness on the part of employers in some cases to raise starting salaries significantly or invest in on-the-job training and less mobility among potential applicants who are underwater on a mortgage.
Though the situation is less serious than before the recession, at some point in the future the economy will improve and the labor market will tighten (partly because of baby boom generation retirements). To better deal with shortages of qualified applicants now and in the future, government policy makers need to acknowledge that government job training programs could stand improvement. Employers should overcome a myopic quarterly earnings posture and focus on long-term strategies for growth that include investing in their own skills-training efforts to enable a broader pool of applicants. To maintain their own competitiveness, workers need to attain and stay current on the qualifications needed to advance in a constantly evolving economy.
America's competitive advantage lies in its human talent. All of us should be doing everything we can to cultivate and develop our work force.
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|Article Index
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Les 10 sujets de 2006 dont le monde devrait entendre parler davantage
High Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development (United Nations General Assembly, 14-15 September 2006)
El Pacto Mundial de las Naciones Unidas
United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service (UN-NGLS) – redesigned website
The 2006 NGLS Survey, conducted in April 2006, solicited almost 800 responses with a number of respondents calling for a more "streamlined" website. Taking these suggestions into consideration, NGLS's new website is more user friendly, features simple navigation for complex searches, and loads quickly. It also provides easier access to reports and other types of information and includes a working site-level search engine. New also is NGLS's capacity to call for online comments.
1540 Committee – Legislative Database
This database has been developed by the Committee established pursuant to UNSC Resolution 1540 (2004) for the purpose of providing additional information on the national implementation of regulations and measures related to the resolution. The database contains links to the original texts of laws, ordinances, decrees and decisions related to activities addressed in the resolution. Where no original legal text could be identified but English or other language versions of such documents are available, these versions are included. They are marked as "unofficial translation" as far as they are not declared to be officially authorized versions. With a few exceptions, related mostly to the English versions, all links are connected to documents that are stored on public accessible websites of governments, governmental agencies or international organizations. The structure of the database follows operational paragraphs 2 and 3 of the resolution and the matrix developed by the Committee for the examination of the national reports.
United Nations Conference to Review Progress Made in the Implementation of the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects (UNHQ New York, 26 June-7 July 2006)
English: http://www.un.org/events/smallarms2006/
French: http://www.un.org/french/events/smallarms2006/
WMDC: The Weapons of Mass Destruction Report - Freeing the world of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Arms
2006 Report on the global AIDS epidemic (UNAIDS) English: http://www.unaids.org/en/HIV_data/2006GlobalReport/default.asp
French: http://www.unaids.org/en/HIV_data/2006GlobalReport/2006-GR_fr.asp
Spanish: http://www.unaids.org/en/HIV_data/2006GlobalReport/2006-GR_es.asp
According to new data in the UNAIDS 2006 Report on the global AIDS epidemic the AIDS epidemic appears to be slowing down globally, but new infections are continuing to increase in certain regions and countries. The report also shows that important progress has been made in country AIDS responses, including increases in funding and access to treatment, and decreases in HIV prevalence among young people in some countries over the past five years.
Global Development Finance 2006 (World Bank)
Net private capital flows to developing countries reached a record high of $491 billion in 2005, driven by privatizations, mergers and acquisitions, external debt refinancing, as well as strong investor interest in local-currency bond markets in Asia and Latin America, says the World Bank's annual 2006 Global Development Finance report.
Preventing disease through healthy environments: Towards an estimate of the environmental burden of disease (WHO report)
English: http://www.who.int/quantifying_ehimpacts/publications/preventingdisease/en/index.html Spanish – Executive Summary: http://www.who.int/quantifying_ehimpacts/publications/prevdisexecsumsp.pdf
The report summarizes the results globally, by 14 regions worldwide, and separately for children. The evidence shows that environmental risk factors play a role in more than 80% of the diseases regularly reported by the WHO. Globally, nearly one quarter of all deaths can be attributed to the environment.
State of the World's Cities 2006/7 (UN-Habitat report)
English, French and Spanish: http://www.unhabitat.org/mediacentre/sowckit2006_7.asp
The report provides concrete data that shows that the world's one billion slum dwellers are more likely to die earlier, experience more hunger and disease, attain less education and have fewer chances of employment than those urban residents that do not reside in a slum.
The Story Behind the Numbers: Women and Employment in Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Commonwealth of Independent States (UNIFEM report)
This report examines women's labour market situation in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Western Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in the context of the social and economic transformations in the region in the past 15 years.
The World Bank Economic Review
This is the most widely read scholarly economic journal in the world and is freely distributed to more than 9,500 subscribers in non-OECD countries. It is the only journal of its kind that specializes in quantitative development policy analysis. Subject to strict refereeing, articles examine policy choices and therefore emphasize policy relevance rather than theory or methodology. Readers include economists and other social scientists in government, business, international agencies, universities, and research institutions. The WBER seeks to provide the most current and best research in the field of economic development.
World Urban Forum (3rd Session) - Our Future: Sustainable Cities - Turning Ideas into Action (Vancouver, Canada, 19-23 June 2006)
1st session of the Human Rights Council
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Violence at work (ILO publication, 3rd edition)
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SYNOPSIS/PLOT: Two martial arts schools prepare for an important tournament.
Five Fingers of Death: AMG Review
King Boxer is not the best kung fu movie the Shaw Brothers put out, but as an early entry it holds up surprisingly well for a genre getting its legs. Rather than incorporate story elements of its wuxia/swordplay precursors, it offers an original plot, with a formula that would be taken up and repeated in subsequent films. Primary among them is the story of two warring kung fu schools, one good and bad, and the tournament at the climax which establishes dominance. The brief section where Chao Chi-Hao (Lo Lieh) must work his way through the ranks of the school would be incorporated into almost the entirety of The 36th Chambers of Shaolin. However, the overall revenge theme is familiar from previous martial arts films. A more unfortunate stereotype perpetuated by this and future films is the Japanese as primitive ape-like villains. Korean director Cheng Chang Ho brings an energetic yet brutal immediacy to the story, which is no doubt the basis of its enthusiastic global response. He frequently opens scenes with gorgeous establishing shots that take full advantage of the color and width of Shawscope. The fight sequences are violent, relentless, and unhindered by the fantastical elements of wuxia. Similarly, the choreography, though lacking in clever invention, is performed with the unpretentious street fighting appeal of a populist hero. Lieh turns in a rather clean cut and bland performance as the leading man (the actor's classic good guy looks are better used as a quietly menacing villain) but Tin Fung as the evil master and Gam Hei Chu as reform-minded mercenary make up the lost charisma. King Boxer drags a bit on what are now tired kung fu cliches, but the punchy spirit that made it popular still survives. ~ Michael Buening, Rovi
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My goodness! A double U-Turn next leg?? OMG! I hope Jaymes/James don't get U-Turned (I know it's likely that they will be U-Turned because they're quite strong).BTW, who was eliminated on the second leg? I didn't see the episode. Will watch it this weekend.
Pit Start in SurabayaRoadblock (plate-carrying) at Antika Jaya Restaurant, SurabayaTravel to Bangil on (most likely) two trains Train 1: Jaymes/James, Josh/Brent, Trey/Lexi, Abbie/Ryan Unknown: James/Abba Train 2: Natalie/Nadiya, Gary/Will, Caitlin/Brittany, and Rob/KelleyTravel to alun-alun by becak (cycle rickshaw)Detour (masks or egg-frying) at alun-alunU-Turn at police station in PerlimanPit Stop at SMA Negeri Bangil 1 (high school).Preliminary maps, assuming the Pit Start is at Pabean Market:
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Quote from: Alenaveda on October 11, 2012, 04:48:17 PMAm I wrong, or Brittany is holding a FF in her left hand with the RI?Yeah, I see that green thing! I hope it's not a FF! U-Turn and Fast Forward in same leg is too much. I don't like the mid-leg travel as well
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Also known as the ship rat (2), the black rat (Rattus rattus) was introduced to Britain with the Romans (4). Generally smaller than the brown rat (Rattus norvegicus), the black rat is typically a uniform black to tawny brown colour, with lighter underparts (1). The tail, which is longer than the head and body, is hairless, and is used for balance (2).
The black rat is nocturnal, although it may become more active in the day in undisturbed areas (4). It is an omnivore, but tends to prefer plant matter (4) such as fruits and seeds, although it will also feed on insects, carrion, refuse and faeces (2). On Lundy Island these rats feed on crabs along the shore (4). This rat lives in groups called 'packs', consisting of several males and two or more dominant females (4). They are skilled climbers and can also swim well (2). Nests are constructed from grass and twigs, often in roof spaces, a habit which earned the species the further common name of 'roof rat' (2).
Breeding takes place between March and November; three to five litters can be produced in a year, each litter containing 1 to 16 young (although the average is seven). A single female can therefore produce a huge number of offspring; 56 young were recorded on a London ship for a single female (4). At 12 to 16 weeks of age, females are capable of breeding; they are also able to conceive whilst still suckling the previous litter, which further maximises their reproductive capability (1). Maximum lifespan in the wild is less than 18 months; populations have very high mortality rates, mainly as a result of widespread pest control measures (4). The black rat is a notorious pest, and was the host of the fleas that carried bubonic plague (2). It also carries a host of other diseases and is damaging to property and food stores (1).
This species was once widespread throughout Britain until the brown rat was introduced (4). The black rat originates from Asia, and today is widely distributed around the globe (4). It has been restricted to largely transient populations in Southwark, London and Avonmouth since 1884, and has undergone a drastic decline in range since the 1950s (4). It also persists on Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel and the Shaint Islands in the Outer Hebrides (4).
The black rat is closely associated with buildings around the world, although in Britain it tends to inhabit rocky shores and cliffs. On the islands it occasionally occurs on rubbish dumps and around buildings (4).
The black rat is classified as Least Concern (LC) on the IUCN Red List (). It is not legally protected in the UK. No conservation designations (3).
The future of this once devastating pest in Britain is now uncertain. Improved hygiene and control measures on ships makes further introductions highly unlikely, and control measures such as poisoning with rodenticides are ever-prevalent, particularly close to human habitation, where the black rat occurs (4).
The question as to whether the black rat should now receive a level of protection due to its poor status is a highly contentious issue (4).
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On March 15, 2011, NRCS chief Dave White announced the release of the CEAP-Cropland report on the effects of conservation practices on cropland in the Chesapeake Bay region. This report is the second in a series of regional reports that continues the tradition within USDA of assessing the status, condition, and trends of natural resources to determine how to improve conservation programs to best meet the Nation's needs. These reports use a sampling and modeling approach to quantify the environmental benefits that farmers and conservation programs are currently providing to society, and explore prospects for attaining additional benefits with further conservation treatment.
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Computer modeling simulations indicate that conservation practice use in the Chesapeake Bay region has reduced sediment, nutrient, and pesticide losses from farm fields. However, there remain significant opportunities for reducing nonpoint agricultural sources of pollution.
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As Ernie Banks used to say back in the days when the Cubs were capable of winning an afternoon baseball game, "Let's play two!" International Pop Overthrow has double-headers lined up for tomorrow, Sunday, and next Saturday, April 19th at the Red Line Tap. The full schedule, with links to every artist, can be viewed on the International Pop Overthrow website.
Here's the schedule for tomorrow afternoon.
2:00 Arts And Letters: Singer-songwriter Joe Grazulis performs under the name Art And Letters, drawing influences from the British Invasion and Simon And Garfunkel, as well as more modern acts such as Supergrass, Blur, and Super Furry Animals.
2:45 Marc Teamaker: Multi-instrumentalist Marc Teamaker likes to mix elements of soul and jazz into melodic rock songs like "So What Do You Think," and draws influences from Marvin Gaye, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder, Humble Pie, Traffic, and Burt Bacharach. He can often be found performing with Ray Herrmann and Jared Nixon.
3:30 Shimmercore: This aptly named Indianapolis-based, five-piece shoegaze/indie/psych/pop band is led by Mike Contreras on vocals and guitar. Shimmercore's 14-minute Stay New Forever Mixtape, which can be heard on the group's Bandcamp page, mixes techno beats and synthesizers on songs that, well, shimmer.
4:15 The Hurtin' Kind This roots rock/power pop quartet is led by Matt Rhodes on vocals and guitar. Guitarist John Leonard amd bassist Bill Kavanagh provide backup vocals, and Jerry King plays drums. Songs like "Settle" and "Soft Landing" combine high energy and strong melodies.
5:00 The Spindles: This four-member power pop band includes guitarist-vocalist Jeff Janulis of The Abbeys, along with bassist-guitarist Jerald Cross, and drummer Duane Spindle. Influences include The Beatles, The Hollies, The Kinks, The Pretenders, and The Plimsouls. The Spindles' melodic new single "Young Heart," which features Brad Elvis on drums and Bill Corston on bass, can be heard on their Reverbnation page.


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Back in The TAY is a segment where I go take a walk down memory lane, playing through games from our past and revel in the nostalgia.
Hello all, and welcome to Back in The TAY. Today's review is one of my favorite imports from the SNES\Super Famicom era, Gundam Wing: Endless Duel. As the title states, this is a fighting game based in the universe of Gundam Wing, which like some of you, I was completely in love with when it made it's way stateside. While this game never made it to this side of the pond, you can easily download a ROM, or buy the physical copy from a convention (which I did) for about $20.
The game, like most 2D fighting games, is set up with the same combo system as Street Fighter, with no real learning curve needed to play. While the game itself does not improve on any of the mechanics, it is still enjoyable for fans of the anime.
Meet the pilots.
The game uses nine separate Mobile Suits, including the five original Gundam's, Tallgeese, Mercurius, and Vayeate. Heero is the only character that has two Mobile Suits available on the screen. With that being said, I went with Wing Zero.
Wing Zero is notably the most overpowered in the list of nine. While some of the other Mobile Suits have different characteristics (Deathscythe's cloaking, or Shen Long's extended reach), they don't seem to be able to compare to Zero's sheer power. While not only does he come equipped with dual rifles, Zero and Wing can both transform into their flight mode and sweep across the screen. While it does not do a lot of damage, it is nearly impossible to block this attack. Each suit comes with a set of super's they can perform as well, and much like everything else about Zero, it too is rather ridiculous.
A new challenger!?
Like most fighting games, once you make it through the other combatants, you are greeted with a boss, and Endless Duel is no different. Epyon is equal in strength, defense, and overall power to Zero, and it proves to be quite a difficult fight. I found myself having to replay the game four to five times before I could finally beat him. While Zero has great range attacks, Epyon has the close quarters, with his incredibly large beam saber (which is actually attached to him) that can do a lot of damage. Similar to Wing and Zero, Epyon too can transform into flight mode, although it seems to do more damage than Zero's. After you somehow miraculously beat Epyon, you have finished the game! It took me about 34 minutes on my last play through to go through the Story mode and to beat Epyon in three matches. You do not unlock anything after the final fight, but you are greeted with a nice credit roll with the awesome intro music:
If you do decide to continue playing the game after you beat it, you can unlock Epyon as a fighter. Although he is only playable in Versus and Trial mode, you can run through and pummel the AI, or your friends with him. To unlock Epyon, you simply highlight Tallgeese and enter: L 4 times, R 4 times, L, R, L, R, L, R, L, R. Have fun!
I would say that, although it doesn't outshine some of the other fighters, it is well worth a play through for any fans of Gundam. It has great music, nice sound effects, and the controls are solid. If you decide to purchase it or download the ROM, the Versus mode is a lot of fun for you and a friend to fight it out, and the Trial mode is a nice survivor mode. Download it, play it, delete it.


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Xiu Xiu (pronounced [ʃuː ʃuː], shoe-shoe[1]) is an experimental indie band originally from and currently based in Oakland, California, with time often spent in Seattle, Washington. The band is the brainchild of singer-songwriter Jamie Stewart, who has been its only constant member since its inception. His current bandmates are cousin, Caralee McElroy and percussionist Ches Smith. Xiu Xiu are also, on occasion, joined by Cory McCulloch, who has also produced several of their albums. Past members include Lauren Andrews, Yvonne Chen, Sam Mickens and Jherek Bischoff. Some, including McCulloch, have played in previous bands with Stewart, notably Ten in the Swear Jar and IBOPA. The band's name is taken from the 1998 Chinese film Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl.[2]
Xiu Xiu's music draws heavily from several disparate genres including punk, noise rock, ambient noise, modern classical, and folk. The majority of lyrics deal with morose topics such as suicide, AIDS, war, and taboo experiences. Musically, the band will often blend cacophonous percussion with lush hooks and diverging lyrical styles, influenced by bands of the UK post-punk scene such as The Cure and Joy Division.
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